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Michele Allgood has extensive experience in all areas of municipal and public finance in Arkansas including bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, issuer’s counsel, trustee’s counsel, purchaser’s counsel and borrower’s counsel. She represents Arkansas state agencies, municipalities, counties, facility boards and commissions in matters of capital improvement and economic development projects. Michele has experience in taxable, tax exempt, public and private municipa...

Joshua C. Ashley concentrates his practice in appellate advocacy, commercial litigation, oil-and-gas litigation, and railroad litigation.Before joining the firm, Josh clerked for the Honorable Susan O. Hickey of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, the Honorable D.P. Marshall Jr. of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the Honorable Lavenski R. Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He also pra...

Donald H. Bacon is a member of Friday, Eldredge & Clark’s Management Committee and a partner in both the Litigation Practice Group and Medical Malpractice Practice Group. While he has represented a diverse set of clients in a variety of litigation, most recently, his focus has been in the area of professional liability representing lawyers, doctors, accountants and insurance agents. In addition to representing them in court, he has represented lawyers before the Office of Profession...

James C. Baker focuses his practice on the areas of casualty insurance defense, commercial and construction litigation. He has first-chaired more than 120 jury trials to verdict and he has represented clients in more than 300 non-jury trials, arbitrations and mediations. J.C. speaks regularly on matters regarding trial practice and workers’ compensation, addressing self-insureds, the Arkansas Bar Association, insurance companies and trade and industry associations. Key Matters Represent...

John Keeling Baker has extensive experience in successfully trying and appealing a variety of business tort, contract, real estate, taxation, and class action suits before state and federal trial courts, Arkansas appellate courts, and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Missouri. He frequently works on behalf of clients on both sides of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). He routinely advises governmental clients on open meetings and public records compliance require...

Michael Barnes has been engaged in active trial practice for more than 25 years, with a focus on product liability, trucking and transportation, toxic torts, class actions and insurance defense. Barnes is the leader of Wright Lindsey Jennings' Trial Team. Barnes’ more recent experience includes: Counsel for an international oil and gas company in litigation resulting from a release of oil from an interstate pipeline. Lead trial counsel in defense of chemical repackaging facility in indi...

Sherry Bartley’s primary areas of practice are toxic tort, environmental and products liability litigation. She has served as lead trial counsel in over 40 trials, including numerous toxic tort, products liability, environmental and personal injury matters.

Trav Baxter focuses his practice on business tax planning, trust and estates, and agriculture law. He provides counsel to individuals and business entities in the areas of estate planning, tax advice, administration of trusts and estates, formation and operation of business entities and succession planning. With a family background in agriculture, Trav assists agriculture clients in various matters including property management, formation and operation of agriculture business entities, tax ad...

Tom Baxter is the head of the Estate Planning, Trusts and Estates Practice Group, serves on the firm’s Management Committee and is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Tom focuses his practice on tax planning for individuals and businesses, estate planning, the administration of trusts and estates, and probate matters. He also represents clients in state and local tax matters, tax controversies, and issues of general business and corporate taxation, including ma...

Robert Beach concentrates his practice in the municipal bonds and corporate finance sector, with a particular emphasis on bond financing for school districts. He represents municipal advisors, underwriters and issuers. He was involved in the largest school financing in the history of Arkansas school boards and has assisted over 98 percent of the school districts issue debt. Bob, a partner in the firm, has been named Lawyer of the Year 2017 by The Best Lawyers in America for his work in Little...

M.Stephen Bingham , a Director at CGWG, has a varied practice that includes the areas of commercial litigation, business law, airport law, products liability defense, professional liability defense, insurance defense, transportation law and construction law. Steve, who is a Certified Public Accountant in addition to an attorney, has an emphasis in business contract work. He focuses a great deal of his time in defending municipal and government entities. He represents and defends municipal and...

I have fifty years experience representing clients, both plaintiffs and defendants, in a wide variety of litigation matters from local court through the United States Supreme Court. The subject matter of cases include: Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Medical Negligence Product Liability Aviation Accidents Motor Vehicle Accidents Industrial Injuries Boating Accidents Medical Devices Directors and Officers Liability Contractual Disputes General Business/Corporate Issues Gas Royalty Disputes ...

Vicki Bronson is an experienced business, trial, and real estate attorney who focuses on achieving her client’s goals effectively and efficiently. Her trial practice includes complex commercial litigation, antitrust defense, class action defense, and environmental claims. Vicki is currently defending multiple high-stakes federal and state antitrust class action cases. In addition, Vicki has extensive experience in successfully representing corporate clients in the defense of environment...

J. Lee Brown concentrates his practice on estate planning, tax, corporate, real estate and nonprofit matters. He serves private clients in the areas of estate planning, wills and trusts, probate and small business planning. He counsels corporate and business clients regarding tax planning, corporate and entity formation, and tax-exempt organizations and related matters. Lee has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Trusts and Estates and for Tax Law for more than 10 years.

Doug Buford heads the firm’s Securities and Mergers and Acquisition practice area. He focuses primarily on securities law matters, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. His practice includes representation of public and private, local and national corporations in various industries, including transportation and logistics, and banking and bank holdings.

William Jackson 'Jack' Butt II was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1950. Jack was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1975 and the Arkansas bar in 1981. He received his B.A. in 1972 from the University of Virginia and his J.D. with Honors in 1975 and LL.M. in Taxation in 1979 from The National Law Center of George Washington University. He joined the firm in 1981 after four years' practice with the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps and two years' private practice in Fairfax, Virginia. Jack r...

Rick Campbell concentrates his practice in the insurance corporate and regulatory areas. He assists insurance companies with filings under state insurance holding company laws and appears before state regulatory bodies in matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, public policy, market conduct, and product filings.

Mr. Cate is a managing member and litigation attorney in the firm’s Northwest Arkansas office. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, including litigation concerning ERISA, employment, mortgage servicing, real estate, media law, eminent domain, products liability, and class action defense. His experience includes representing defendants in putative class actions filed in Arkansas and Missouri regarding Internet practices, defending a national mortgage servicer in a putative clas...

Vince Chadick maintains a commercial law practice, representing corporate, public, and individual clients in matters of litigation and regulatory compliance. Mr. Chadick has appeared before state and federal courts, and administrative agencies, in at least six states and the District of Columbia; and has handled in excess of 50 trials (including more than 20 jury trials). He has also argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the Arkansas Supreme Court. Over the past t...

E. B. (Chip) Chiles IV is a Managing Member of Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull PLLC. Mr. Chiles focuses on business-related dispute resolution, including trial and appellate practice in state and federal courts. His most recent jury-trial successes include defending a convenience-store owner/operator against a former employee’s allegations of malicious prosecution and securing judgment for a family-owned business against two former employees and their new employer on a variety of contrac...

Will Clark was born and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Cum Laude , and received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law, Magna Cum Laude , in 2010. In law school he was named the Joe C. Barrett Commercial Transactions Scholar, was a member of the Board of Advocates and served as an Associate Editor for the Arkansas Law Review where his case note, Blazing a New Trail: The ...

Chuck Cliett has extensive experience assisting insurance and managed care clients with complex multistate projects, including licensing, mergers and acquisitions, compliance, and forward looking product design and approval of such products. With a particular focus on health and managed care products, as well as clients who participate in Medicaid and Medicare managed care and in Health Insurance Marketplace programs, Chuck has developed relationships with insurance regulators across the coun...

Craig Cockrell advises businesses, individuals, municipalities and state agencies on tax matters and business transactions including business formations and start-ups, stock and asset acquisitions, real estate transactions and public financing transactions. He also assists individuals and families with preparing and implementing estate and business succession plans and provides legal counsel on wealth transfer strategies. Having extensive experience in administrative tax proceedings, Craig al...

Charlie Coleman has been engaged in active trial practice for more than 34 years. His practice is focused in the areas of bankruptcy, secured transactions, creditor's rights and remedies and other areas of commercial litigation. His bankruptcy practice includes the representation of creditors and trustees in all types of bankruptcy proceedings and debtors in business cases. Coleman's more recent experience includes: Bankruptcy counsel for approved stalking horse bidder in chapter 11 bankruptc...

Gayle Corley focuses her practice on estate planning, long term care planning and probate. She enjoys interacting with clients and their family members to create the wills, trusts, powers of attorney and other estate planning documents which meet their specific needs, and counseling her clients through difficult situations. Gayle’s elder law practice includes assisting clients with Medicaid and Veterans pension eligibility – whether in a crisis or with planning techniques that pro...

Allison J. Cornwell practices in the areas of estate and gift taxation as well as corporate and real estate planning and transactions. She also counsels private clients on estate and trust matters, including probate administration. Allison is a former lecturer on estate and gift taxation at the University of Little Rock Bowman School of Law. Allison was recently elected as a Fellow by the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). This appointment demonstrates her high level of exp...

Bruce Cross is a Director at CGWG. His practice includes work before the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Wage & Hour and OFCCP Divisions of the Department of Labor, as well as related Federal and State Court Litigation. His experience includes Collective Bargaining, Arbitration, Advising Management Regarding Maintenance of a Non-Union and Non-Discriminatory Workplace, Supervisory Training, Development of Personnel Systems and the preparatio...

Courtney Crouch is a trusted advisor on corporate and securities matters helping both publicly-traded and privately-held companies navigate corporate governance, regulatory and transactional issues. He counsels corporate boards of directors, board committees and executive management on corporate governance, shareholder communications, investor disclosure, executive compensation, capital markets and securities transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other regulatory and transactional matte...

John Davis represents employers in the areas of labor and employment law and workers’ compensation defense. He spends a considerable amount of his time advising clients in connection with a variety of employment-related matters, including terminations, severance agreements, wage and hour issues, union avoidance, union negotiations, arbitrations, personnel policies and compliance with federal, state and local employment laws. In addition, Davis frequently appears before the Arkansas Work...

Chuck Dougherty's practice is focused on intellectual property and technology issues. He prepares and prosecutes patent applications, federal and state trademark registration applications and copyright registration applications. For those clients with international portfolios, he oversees and coordinates foreign filings with local counsel in appropriate jurisdictions. He also assists clients with licensing and other issues related to the protection of their intellectual property. In addition,...

Missy McJunkins Duke is a Director at CGWG. She regularly represents employers, both private and public, before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Wage & Hour Division of the Department of Labor, as well as related federal and state court litigation. She also represents school districts throughout Arkansas concerning employment matters, including discipline, discharge, and leave issues. Missy also represents employers and individuals in immigration matters.